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Americus provides an interesting counter to women’s suffrage that I hadn’t considered. She wrote that the day she takes the ballot “will bring with it a conviction that the judgment I rely on has failed me, and the arm upon which I lean, is powerless to protect (367).” She felt that women’s suffrage would ultimately question female judgment. Women relied on their husbands willingly, but suggesting that they needed to vote would also suggest that their husbands weren’t what they trusted them to be, and that perhaps women couldn’t trust themselves either if they were able to be so completely deceived. -- Taylor Brann | Americus provides an interesting counter to women’s suffrage that I hadn’t considered. She wrote that the day she takes the ballot “will bring with it a conviction that the judgment I rely on has failed me, and the arm upon which I lean, is powerless to protect (367).” She felt that women’s suffrage would ultimately question female judgment. Women relied on their husbands willingly, but suggesting that they needed to vote would also suggest that their husbands weren’t what they trusted them to be, and that perhaps women couldn’t trust themselves either if they were able to be so completely deceived. -- Taylor Brann | ||
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| + | In many ways, the women’s rights movement was elitist. Wealthy women who had the leisure time to campaign for suffrage often asserted that they should vote to help counteract the votes of the working class. Working class women were less likely to participate in the women’s rights movement, therefore I thought Ella A. Little’s letter was pretty awesome. Her argument was that wealthy women did not really understand oppression and that working class women who had to “battle” to “earn their livelihood” were in more desperate need for the right to vote. I think it is really sad that this opinion is not often heard in the women’s rights movement. -Allison Luthern | ||
== Amelia Barr, (novelist and married) 1896, Speaks out against female suffrage == | == Amelia Barr, (novelist and married) 1896, Speaks out against female suffrage == | ||
